Steam Joins the Indie Game Movement with "Greenlight"

The new indie wing of the Steam community will let the players choose the games they want to play.
Valve announced a new indie game publishing service for their Steam store called

The new indie wing of the Steam community will let the players choose the games they want to play.

Valve announced a new indie game publishing service for their Steam store called "Steam Greenlight".

Steam's service differs from other outlets for indie games by letting the public choose the projects they would like to see published instead of leaving the decision up to marketers or publishing services.

The other interesting part of the process is that independent game developers don't have to have a final product to be considered in the process. Valve will let the community consider projects that are in the early development stages based on "a concept/early build or as a playable game that is near completion".